THE CORIOLI AFFAIR

by Mary Deasy ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 18, 1954

A period piece which borders on melodrama and which is set in Corioli, a town on a river running into the Mississippi, in the 1880's. Lacey Dereen, a young girl just over from Ireland, tells her own story as she secures a job as a teacher in Le Jeune through the efforts of a cousin with Mrs. Sallic Dayton, the wife of a steamboat operator. Sallie's husband, Jed, falls in love with her-and she with him- and while she keeps him at a distance, gossip grows, Lacey is discharged from her school job, and Jed leaves his wife to go off with her. is murdered-and Jed although innocent, is arrested and brought to trial. After an unsatisfactory manslaughter verdict and a raid on the jail by a lynch mob, Jed escapes with broken ribs and internal injuries-and as he and Lacey attempt to reach safety- he dies. The story keeps moving- and while the reader never finds out what kinds of people Jed and Lacey really are- their story has a certain external intensity.

Pub Date: May 18, 1954

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Little, Brown-A.M.P.

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1954

Categories: FICTION